Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would roll back the Biden administration’s greenhouse gas emissions standards on power plants. That’s great news for consumers, who will suffer from widespread blackouts and billions of dollars in costs if the rules are not repealed.

The Biden administration’s rules, finalized in May 2024, would subject millions of people to rolling blackouts by effectively forcing reliable coal plants to retire and erecting impediments to building the new natural gas plants needed to replace them reliably.